Fad or Fundamental? New Possibilities for Your Data Architecture

ChatGPT: Is it just hype? Something only to be used by students to write their papers? Or are there practical applications for it within your Data Architecture? What about other emerging technologies? What should you be paying attention to?

In this keynote, Donna Burbank, principal speaker of the monthly DATAVERSITY webinar series Data Architecture Strategies, will facilitate an expert panel discussion to determine Fad or Fundamental. 

Speakers: Donna Burbank, Juan Sequeda, Lauren Maffeo

Donna Burbank – Managing Director, Global Data Strategy, Ltd

Donna Burbank is a recognized industry expert in information management with over 20 years of experience helping organizations enrich their business opportunities through data and information.  She currently is the Managing Director of Global Data Strategy Ltd, where she assists organizations around the globe in driving value from their data.  She has worked with dozens of Fortune 500 companies worldwide in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa and speaks regularly at industry conferences.  She has co-authored several books on data management and is a regular contributor to industry publications. She can be reached at [email protected] and you can follow her on Twitter @donnaburbank. 

Lauren Maffeo – Service Designer, Steampunk

Lauren is an award-winning designer and analyst who currently works as a service designer at Steampunk, a human-centered design firm serving the federal government. She is also a founding editor of Springer’s AI and Ethics journal and an area editor for Data and Policy, an open access journal with Cambridge University Press. Lauren has written for Harvard Data Science Review, Financial Times, and The Guardian, among other publications. Lauren is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Distinguished Speakers Program, and a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, where she helps judge the Webby Awards. 

Juan F. Sequeda – Principal Scientist, data.world

Juan F. Sequeda is the Principal Scientist at data.world. He joined through the acquisition of Capsenta, a company he founded as a spin-off from his research. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin. Wearing his scientific hat, Juan’s goal is to reliably create knowledge from inscrutable data. His research interests are on the intersection of Logic and Data for (ontology-based) data integration and semantic/graph data management, and what now is called Knowledge Graphs. Wearing his business hat, Juan is a product manager, does business development and strategy, technical sales, and works with customers to understand their problems to translate back to R&D.